Reunion Time - Happy 4th of July

Today we woke up and had breakfast. Our niece's and nephew requested pancakes and cheesy eggs.
It was delicious. The lady that owns the Bed & Breakfast is so nice and a great cook.

     

 After we were done eating, I walked into our room and I found the cat that lives at the B&B laying on our bed. I went out and told Kelly he wasn't very happy about it. I thought it was quite funny. The cat reminded me a lot of how Nala (cat) looked. It made me miss my little kitty.

We then drove the few miles into Virden to meet all the family at the 'Virden Church'. The church use to own this building now it is for people to rent out. Its like a giant hotel, I never pictured how a LDS church could be turned into 30 bedrooms. 

It was a great morning of chatting with family. Seeing cousins, aunts & uncles. They had a great program for Grandma's 90th birthday. It was filled with memories from her kids and pictures. She was in love with it & I think everyone learned something that they didn't know before. 

This picture was taken of Grandma and her kids singing a song she taught them when they were little.  Lets just say Grandma still has it- as for the kids... eh.. not quite.

Jeanne, Diane, (Kelly's Dad) Grant, Grandma, Dale

                                 

I snapped this picture of Kelly with his grandpa. I think Kelly will look just like him when he's 95 years old. He is the stinking cutest old man. 

                                             

This little boy is named Colt. He is one of Kelly's cousins kids. He is four months old and weighed about 30 lbs. He was so cute and well heavy. He was actually a premie and was the biggest premie that the hospital had seen. Colt has two sisters that are just cute divas. They both have bright red hair & were so friendly to everyone. 

Kelly wasn't so sure how to hold a baby. I guess we have our work cut out for us.. Colt instantly started crying when Kelly started to hold him! 

When Kelly was a little kid they took a big family picture out on these steps, so everyone was taking pictures with their families.

We obviously had to do it as well.

(Yes, we matched on the 4th of July.. because we're cool like that)

Something is growing in there. (We were officially half way on the 4th)

After a great dinner, games and watching the kids play we went to Duncan to watch the light parade that night.. lets be honest it was smaller and a little small town.

We then went to the high school to watch fireworks! It was the best show I have ever seen better than the Weber State fireworks. I thought we may go to Duncan for the 4th every year.

I have had a cold for about 3 weeks and was kind of miserable between the lack of air in the church and stuffy sinus pressure. We finally got back to the B&B to find out that there was a band playing across the street.. I will be honest I was pissed. I just wanted to sleep.. but after turning on the AC in our room we were probably passed out within 10 minutes.

          

Long Drive.. Day One!

We drove to New Mexico today for Kelly's family reunion. We had to leave a little later than we wanted so we could drop Nala off at the kennel hotel she was going to be staying at. She really didn't care that we left her in fact she remembered the place from our cruise. She was so happy to see all the other dogs and the owner loves her.

We left our house at 8 am and made it all the way to Moab by noon. We stopped and ate at Milt's Diner. It's like Burger Bar but, not exactly. Kelly knows all the good places in Moab from working down there for a few weeks with Questar. (I guess thats a perk, although Moab is quite far.)

Once we got back on the road we took a different way than most people in his family take to get down there. It was through the Indian reservation which to be quite honest is very interesting to see just for the fact it makes you grateful for having a laundry room in your own house.

With this pregnancy of mine we stopped at a gas station on the reservation so I could potty. (I will admit, by the time we got to our Bed & Breakfast I was sick of public restrooms and nasty doorknobs.) We really didn't fit in with the rest of the crowd; A- being white people B- driving a Mercedes.

Everything seemed to go well & we drove through a couple rainstorms, spotted some rainbows.


The last two hours of the drive seemed to go on forever. I was annoying Kelly by saying "Only 100 miles left" ... the last 200ish miles consist of winding down a canyon that the max speed at night is probably 30 mph. It's the worst part of the drive.

After a little over 12 hours and 700ish miles we made it to Duncan, Arizona. It was so nice to walk into the Bed & Breakfast. We watched an episode of Parks & Rec.. which made us both fall asleep.

Cleaning & Cold & Clutter

Over the past couple of weeks I have been struggling with a chest cold. It hasn't really been in my sinus's but its had a ton of phlegm in my chest. At night, I have taken stuff so I can fall asleep but the mornings involve coughing till I pee my pants almost or feel like I am going to throw up. I have thrown up saliva a few times. There is something weird about throwing up when you are pregnant weather or not its food you feel better afterwards.

I am hoping that I am on the last leg of this cold, it really has made it so I don't have any ambition and it really stinks that you can't just dose yourself with NyQuil like anyone else can because your pregnant. Although, after a phone call to the nurses station they told me somethings I can take and I think it has helped with it but, I just want it gone!

There are several things that I want to get caught up on with it being summer. I have to give myself some credit that I have always stayed up on the laundry that never ceases and there are only two of us. 

The only downfall with the laundry is we end up having about 6 baskets of clean clothes that I do a horrible job at never folding. 

I have kept up more on the kitchen and putting stuff away like the mail. I realize that I can't take too many smells in that place. Kelly has been awesome at getting around to do the dishes even after he works late nights. I really do appreciate that. I never liked doing the dishes but now its 10 times worse.

I also have to thank Kelly for his patience with this cold. I know I have been a complete slacker at not cleaning every day and even though he asks to see if I have he understands that it just wasn't going to happen. Man, I married a hunk!

We leave next week for a family reunion in Virden, New Mexico. I am excited to see people I know & to meet those I haven't. It will be a fun time. However, the drive there I am not so sure about... just the idea of sitting in a car for 12+ hours isn't fun. Before we leave there is a lot of work to be done inside our house. I am hoping to finally just get in some super-cleaning emotion and go for it. But, as for now I have felt a little defeated.

These are the times where I think owning a house isn't as fun as it seemed at 20 years old.

We also will have another appointment for Baby Nelson next Wednesday. I am excited for another ultrasound, its always reassuring and I love my doctor and the nurses at COLWC. They are awesome!

Can you believe that next Thursday I will be 20 weeks!!! What the... Half way? 

It's beyond crazy. I am grateful that I have had a smooth pregnancy this far and not been extremely sick even if I could kick this cold in the you-know-what.

Mr. Nelson (Save's the Day)

This afternoon I was just leaving Riverdale road and my phone was ringing. I realized it was 4:15pm and that if it was Kelly he was probably telling me he was working late. (That happens more often than not.) I can't complain about the OT & well really its not like I can tell him he can't work late.

Today, he was working with his old foreman and his regular foreman. These foreman's are BFF's so a majority of the time their crews will work together. They got a call for this blowing line in Layton. Kelly isn't working nights or is he on call but he was going to get a ride home from his boss & well they instead wanted him to go with them on this leak.

So like any other day I just thought "I will see him eventually. And, if I am lucky I won't have to cook dinner if they work late!" ... then, an hour later I received a text from Kelly!

Oh the things they get to do every day.. Jumping in fire suits, having a road shut down & then getting a picture of yourself on KSL. Yup, its a rush for them.

Although Kelly is a stud getting his foreman's in fire suits. As he told me they wanted to be 'buddies' so Kelly didn't have to get in a suit.

The link to KSL: Gas leak causes evacuation in Layton

Summer So Far..

The first week came and went with Kelly being sick with a Viral Stomach bug. We went to the Instacare and then after a week it finally just disappeared. Kelly was so sick and I felt bad for him. Being pregnant and not know what he had I slept downstairs for a few nights. I really hated that, I wanted my bed and to be next to him.

He missed work and watched movies & TV. I have never seen him so relaxed yet in so much pain. A big thank you to my dad and brother in law Landon for giving him a Preisthood Blessing. 

Although, even though Kelly couldn't do much he still came to watch me dance and my dance girls at the recital. I was so happy he came & he knew it would mean a lot to me and of course it meant the WORLD! 

Kelly has officially bought and installed a brand new vinyl fence around our property. With a big thanks of our neighbors the Weavers for helping a couple Saturdays!

It looks so much better than the old fence that had been there. Sadly, we couldn't change the side that thousands of people drive by everyday. Because, we still have no idea if they are going to widen 4000 or not. So, why replace a fence that will get torn down? Catch my drift. 

Doesn't it look awesome.. this kid has way to many talents!

I have enjoyed sleeping in and being able to do things that I have wanted to catch up on. 

My sister Marci has officially moved from Springville to now West Layton. While their house is being built in West Kaysville! It has been fun to see them and enjoy their craziness more. 

After growing my hair out for almost 2 years I finally cut it off back to a Assymetrical cut. It has been fun and nice to have such a fast hairstyle again. 

All of the Competition girls watched Frozen at Lisa's house. It was so fun to be with these girls again and to hear them sing ang quote the movie. 

Something else has changed but I want that to have its own post but I will say that there are 4 new tires in our garage and I am in love with it!!! 

I also was able to go to the Cabin for the first time this year! Marci & my mom painted the new kitchen for my grandma while I tried to watch the three minions. It was nice to be back up there but I wish Kelly could have gone and that we had a four-wheeler there as well. It was surprisingly warm up there and we couldn't see any snow banks. Also, we saw a ton of deer. It's been awhile since we have seen so many. I wish we could have seen some Moose. The river is very full and fast, the kids didn't like it because throwing rocks wasn't as fun. 

I also planted some really pretty lilies and added a planter of Geraniums and surprisingly I totally have kept them alive. That makes me happy!! 

Well, the summer is here and we are busy. 

I am hoping to start on my list of summer projects soon! 

Ditzy

Yesterday, I cleaned out my entire car & needed to take it through the car wash but all the car wash's I tried I could never get to work. So, Kelly said we would take it to one in Syracuse. We finally made it there and started the car wash.

I learned two things!
1- Don't leave your keys in the car
2- Don't leave Nala in the car with your keys

Nala loved the water hitting the car and was bouncing up and down.. what does that do?
It locks you out of your own vehicle when your keys are sitting on the seat. (The other bad thing is the spare to my car was on with the other keys... that wasn't the smartest)

As you are laughing at me, I don't care because it was quite hilarious. Luckily, Kelly didn't even become mad at me once while we were trying to unlock the car ourselves especially since he's been sick since last Friday.

We couldn't get it open with the few tools that the Car wash let us borrow. So... we called the non-emergency police line. A few minutes later a nice cop came and within 45 seconds he had the car open. It's so nice to be able to have someone who can save me through these moments. We got some funny looks at the car wash.

Once we were inside the car we went and got a drink & headed to Kelly's parents to see what their garage sale was all about. It was a very funny day.

I have done so many things lately like forgetting where I put my keys, what I was just doing... this pregnancy brain really does happen.

Next time you are at a car wash remember to take your keys out.

The Last Dance

Where am I suppose to start?!

This dance year has been so fun, challenging & wonderful. Its so nice to see the hard work pay off and the improvement at the end of the year from each girl. Its also funny to sit back and just see them dance because they love too!

Yesterday was our Senior Recital at Roy High. Both recitals were great, I love seeing these girls go out with such confidence and when they walk off the stage they know that they did it perfectly.

The theme of the recitals this year was Broadway! We of course had our production number the Boys of Broadway. Newsies, West Side Story & Chimney Sweeps. As long as those productions take to clean, teach and come up with its so nice to see the end where everything just works! Lisa works her tail off to get those to be so fabulous!

Our taps were from broadway shows as well. Sadly, our competition routines weren't because we had to do what the competitions needed & we had picked songs a long long time ago.

Speaking of music I am hoping to find something as good as we did this year, on to the next year in a week.. go figure.

Alumni class finished last night as well we did great with our four dances. We had our Army Hip Hop, Edge of 17 (jazz), Say Something (lyrical) and our Pirate tap!
I love being able to still be challenged by these dances and be able to still dance with such amazing girls. Some monday nights our practices go so long & we sometimes wonder if we will ever really get the steps in Tap but I honestly think we rocked it!

I am so happy that I get to be around such awesome people! Teachers, students, friends, owners etc. Dance Image really is the place to be.

Its not really the Last Dance but Dance Image Studios Competition Team 2014 has officially proved that they have the POWER!

Love you girls so much!